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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this week\u2019s Redux, we\u2019re in a reflective mood. Read Wallace Stegner\u2019s 1990 Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Joy Williams\u2019s short story \u201cJefferson\u2019s Beauty<\/a>,\u201d and Mary Jo Bang\u2019s poem \u201cSelf-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe to read the entire archive<\/a>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

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Wallace Stegner, The Art of Fiction No. 118<\/a>
\nIssue no. 115 (Summer 1990)<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think straitjackets are the way to get at fiction. I would rather define the novel as Stendhal did, as a mirror in the roadway. Whatever happens in the road is going to happen in the mirror too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jefferson\u2019s Beauty<\/a>
\nBy Joy Williams
\nIssue no. 45 (Winter 1968)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cJeffie,\u201d he said to the face in the mirror, \u201cis going to do something special for you today.\u201d He smiled. The vision in the mirror smiled. He crooned at it, opened his mouth still wider and grinned. He thought again of the whale and of his own wonderful idea, pleased that something so eminently his own could be put to such good and fragrant use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror<\/a>
\nBy Mary Jo Bang
\nIssue no. 216 (Spring 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n

Some days, everything is a machine, by which I mean
\nremove any outer covering and you will most likely
\nfind component parts: cogs and wheels that whir just
\nlike an artificial heart \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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